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Andries Pretorius arrives in the Voortrekker laager on the bank of the “Klein Tugela”.
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François le Vaillant (71), explorer of the SA interior, dies in Cézanne, France.
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Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a route to India.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s former financial adviser, Addy Moolman, is to finally start serving his four-year jail sentence, Pr
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Joyce Kgoali (54), chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, dies following complications after a minor operation.
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The Sunday Independent reports that at least 1,2 million Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa during the past three years, bri
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The SA Communist Party (SACP), following a weekend meeting of its augmented central committee, calls for an end to the Mugabe g
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The Free State cricket team achieves the highest fourth innings ever in SA provincial cricket by scoring 443/4 against Natal Do
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Marga Diederichs (91), wife of former president Nic Diederichs, dies in Pretoria.
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Egyptian Boutros Boutros Ghali is selected as UN Secretary General.
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Ten people die in an attack by the IFP on the launching of an ANC branch in Appelbosch, Natal North Coast.
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Namibia’s constituent assembly meets for the first time to draft a new constitution.
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The Citizen reports that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in Namibia have been withdrawn in November.
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Leaders of the four ‘independent’ homelands meet central government representatives in Pretoria, chaired by President P.W. Both
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Twelve people are killed in Mamelodi, Pretoria, when the police open fire on a crowd gathered in protest.
Twelve people are killed in Mamelodi, Pretoria, when the police open fire on a crowd gathered to protest the army's presence in the township, high rents and…
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SA signs a multilateral agreement on the control of pollution of water resources in the Southern African region.
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Constance Magogo Sibilile Mantithi Ngangezinye Thombisile Ka Dinuzulu (Princess Constance), daughter of Zulu King Dinuzulu and
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The South African Institute of Race Relations urges the lifting of a 24-year-old ban on the African National Congress (ANC).
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Demonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and continue on an almost daily basis, as anti-apart
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The government decides to disband the Foreign Affairs Association, a front organisation founded by the former Department of Inf
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It is announced that all Cabinet Ministers on the boards of newspaper groups are to resign their directorships.
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The Transvaal National Party leadership election produces a decisive win for Dr. Andries Treurnicht, Deputy Minister of Plural
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A Soweto Action Committee is formed to back the plan for the future of Soweto proposed by the ‘Committee of 10’, most of whose
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The twenty-fourth General Assembly of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its collaboration with Portugal and Southern
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It is officially announced on Eric Louw’s seventy-third birthday that the South African Ambassador in London, Dr. Hilgard Mulle
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The UN General Assembly passes a resolution stating that Libya should become independent before January 1, 1952.
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General James Barry Munnik Hertzog (76), former SA prime minister, dies in Pretoria.
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The Rev. James Murray Louw (70), board member of the Abraham Kriel Children’s Home in Langlaagte, Johannesburg, dies in Boksbur
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Gerhard Johannes Beukes, SA dramatist, is born at Biesiepoort, Augrabies Falls, northwestern Cape.
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